Heating oil thieves struck at ministerial estate

A businessman has been jailed after he siphoned off £1million of heating oil from properties including Chevening estate when it was the ministerial home of Nick Clegg.

Roger Gull was part of a criminal operation that involved drilling into high pressure pipelines to steal hundreds of thousands of litres of fuel oil worth more than £1million.

He was handed a five-year prison sentence at Maidstone Crown Court yesterday.